Mystery Unveiled: Ancient Doodles Inside Maine's Old School Hint at Centuries-Old Secrets
“Some of them are sums, calculations, and lists. Things that you would expect. But, there’s also really funny caricatures of teachers, sort of focusing on prominent features like big noses,” Dr. Libby Bischof, a historian at the university, told local news outlet WMTW. “This is sort of like the text message or the Snapchat that they’re sending in the middle of class, that they shouldn’t be.”
University of Southern MaineA caricature of a school teacher with exaggerated features.
Among some of the letters are requests such as “Ada, would’nt you like to swing after school” or “Should we take a walk?” Others document students’ love for everyday things, like apple blossoms.
Many of the notes are illegible due to their age, but the university’s special collections employees hope that digitizing them may better reveal their contents. For now, the papers have been carefully preserved, and students should soon be able to access this captivating part of the school’s early history.
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